Robert Allen Shipp

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Wasabi Systems Inc. develops network storage solutions and software. It offers storage solutions, such as VMX Series iSCSI SAN Systems, which combine SATA drive technology along with an option for high performance SAS drives with various GbE interfaces, as well as storage systems and software that supports various client operating systems. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Norfolk, VA.

Packet Design, Inc. develops and markets network solutions that leverage the distributed intelligence of the Internet Protocol (IP) to enhance the reliability, efficiency and predictability of IP networks. Its products include SDN management and orchestration platform, SDN traffic engineering, explorer suite, route explorer, traffic explorer and performance explorer. The company was founded in March 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Tizor Systems, Inc. provides data auditing and protection solutions. The company was founded by Pratyush Moghe in 2002 and is headquartered in Stow, MA.

Integral Development Corp. provides software solutions to banks and other financial institutions. Its products include Integral SEF, InvestorFX, FX Grid, and TrueFX. Integral’s private, customer-branded trading solutions are managed and operated over Integral’s FX Grid, a global inter-institutional connectivity and trading network, linking market making banks to FX market participants. The company was founded by Viral Tolat and Harpal S. Sandhu in 1993 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Part of CME Group, Inc., Pivot, Inc. is a company that provides liquidity management and collaboration software to the financial markets. The company is based in Chicago, IL. The company was founded by David Ho, Furqan Nazeeri. Pivot was acquired by CME Group, Inc. on August 01, 2012.

Foneshow, Inc. operates as a telephony-based distribution platform for audio contents. It enables users to subscribe access, publish, share, and consume short form audio programming immediately from any cell phone. The company was founded on October 16, 2007 and is headquartered in Portland, ME.

Home Value Protection Inc. provides home insurance services. The company was founded by Eric Hutchinson, Daniel P. Sanford and Craig Schmeizer in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Princeton Infrared Technologies, Inc. is a fabless infrared company that focuses on design, test, and final assembly of infrared imaging and detection products. It offers LineCam12, 1280SciCam, 1024L1 Linear Array, and Custom Foundry Work. The company was founded by Martin H. Ettenberg in 2013 and is headquartered in Monmouth Junction, NJ.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. engages in the provision of management and technology consulting services. Its services include consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, cyber security, and product. The company was founded by Edwin G. Booz in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Epoch Partners, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs & Co., is a technology-enabled investment bank focused on high-growth companies and electronically connected institutional and individual investors. The firm offers a full array of investment services. Their ultimate parent is Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS).

IronPlanet, Inc. operates an online marketplace for buying and selling used heavy equipment and trucks. It offers construction equipment, cranes, mining equipment, oil and gas machinery, agricultural equipment, trucks and motors, attachments and parts, forestry machinery, forklifts, and quarry and aggregates. The firm also provides rental and online auction services. The company was founded by Reza Bundy Saadlou in 1999 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Morgan Stanley Venture Partners (MSVP) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Investment Management Merchant Banking, which is ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MWD) founded in 1986.The firm is headquartered in New York.

Bitpipe, Inc. provides software solutions and services which enable information technology marketers to syndicate their white papers, product information, web casts, case studies and analyst reports through its network of information technology and business-related partner sites including Bitpipe.com. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Newton, MA.

In-Q-Tel is a Venture Capital firm is founded in 1999 by Gilman Louie. The firm is headquartered in Arlington with additional office in London, United Kingdom.

Maine Venture Fund is a venture capital firm founded in 1995. The firm is headquartered in Newport, Maine.

Dynamic Mobile Data Systems, Inc. provides wireless communications services. It offers two-way wireless communications and GPS services to large and midsize companies with truck fleets. The company was founded by Larosa Mark in 1994 and is headquartered in Somerset, NJ.

Hudson Venture Partners (Hudson Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Jay N. Goldberg and Marilyn S. Adler. The firm is headquartered in New York.

CVP Management, Inc (Converge Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Nilanjana Bhowmik and Maia Heymann. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Maine Technology Institute offers early-stage capital and commercialization assistance. It is an industry-led, publicly-funded, nonprofit corporation that offers early-stage capital and commercialization assistance in the form of competitive grants, loans and equity investment for the research, development and application of technologies that create new products, processes and services, generating jobs across Maine. The company was founded 1999 and is headquartered in Brunswick, ME.

IronPlanet Ltd. operates an online marketplace for selling and buying used equipment and other durable assets. The company was founded on July 24, 2008 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Crystal Computing provides hosting services. The company was founded on August 21, 2006 and is headquartered in Saint-Ghislain, Belgium.

Avco Consulting, Inc. provides information technology (IT) consulting, software project outsourcing, and offshore development services. It serves the financial, insurance, pharmaceutical, healthcare, telecom, retail, and media industries. The company was founded by Vijay Nalamada in 1999 and is headquartered in Worcester, MA.

Sequent Software, Inc. provides digital issuance and mobile wallet platform. Its products includes open wallet platform, digital issuance systems, IOT, and wearables which delivers mobile payments and value-added services to banks, mobile operators, merchants, and access control providers. The company was founded in 2010 by Drew Weinstein and David Brudnicki and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Cloud Physics, Inc. designs and develops datacenter analytics and management software. The firm offers solutions for modeling and simulation, storage administration, customized reporting and health checks and troubleshooting. The company was founded by John Blumenthal, Irfan Ahmad, Jim Kleckner and Xiaojun Liu in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Touchdown Ventures, Inc. (Touchdown Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by David B. Horowitz, Scott Lenet and Rich M. Grant. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

IrishAngels Inc (IrishAngels) is a venture capital subsidiary of Vitalize Venture Group founded in 2012 by Thomas Jordan Curnes, David Wieland and Gale Wilkinson. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Hurdl, Inc. operates as a wearable tech and audience engagement startup. It offers events a way to both create audience lighting effects, as well as to highlight specific audience members and groups and engage, via text, with event attendees during and after the event. The company was founded by Betsy McHugh and Zach Shunk and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

OPAQ Networks, Inc. provides cloud-based security solutions. It offers distributed branch enablement and optimization, security product displacement, securing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, on demand security deployment, threat management, and backhaul offload. The company is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

Ilya Pharma AB develops biological drugs for treating wounds in skin and mucosa. The company was incorporated in May 13, 2016 by Mia Johanna Phillipson, Stefan Roos and Evelina Wanda Matilda Vågesjö and is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden.